Word: wholeness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Colonel Crozet been there he would have seen not 32, but some 700 cadets. He would have seen a parade ground of 14 acres, 17 stone school buildings on a lush-green campus, 19 dormitories and residences, modern engineering laboratories, the whole plant valued at $2,500,000. He would have seen the grey-coated cadets marching in review before General George Catlett Marshall, first V. M. I. alumnus to be chosen Chief of Staff of the U. S. Army. He would have heard a Northern President exhorting the students to "live up to your great heritage...
...Kaufman means working with a perfectionist. Hart called their first job together "The Days of the Terror." The daily schedule was from 10 a. m. "until exhausted," which meant until starved as well, since Kaufman cares nothing for food. They would spend two hours shaping one short sentence, a whole day discussing an exit. Kaufman's working habits are notorious. "In the throes of composition," Collaborator Alexander Woollcott once said, "he seems to crawl up the walls of the apartment in the manner of the late Count Dracula...
...during Manhattan's horsecar era. Day's own chronicle has no plot, no love interest, no mighty triumphs, no major catastrophes-only crusty, rambunctious Father, who lost almost every set-to; helpless, fluttering Mother, who won; and four redheaded boys. But Playwrights Lindsay & Grouse have turned the whole thing into a spirited, likable stage comedy. They have taken the sting out of Father...
...have stuck to these laws if a dictator, Peisistratus, had not enforced them for a generation; after that they became habitual. About 507 B.C. another persuasive political thinker, Cleisthenes, extended an Athenian device which for pure democracy has never been equalled: selection of legislators by lot from the whole list of citizens over 30. It was then that Athenians began feeling their oats...
Well, the rains come, alright, and the dam breaks, and George Brent flounders around in ten feet of water, and on the whole it's one of the wettest movie-going evenings since "The Hurricane." But unlike "The Hurricane" it was a bit wet from the critical point of view, too. A cast headed by Myrna Loy and Tyrone Power has a right to expect a decent script with which to work. But 20th Century Fox let them down with the script of "The Rains Came." For instance: Brent to Loy, "It's exciting seeing you again." Loy to Brent...